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good day guys today i'm going to start talking to you about annual leave so this time of the year everybody is taking leave but i'm going to teach you a few stuff that you have not known about annual leave and important stuff as a matter of fact so let's start so guys the first thing that you need to know is to who does this law apply i'm talking out of the basic conditions of employment act one thing so leave don't apply to employees that work less than 24 hours a month so if your hours is less than 24 a month it does not apply to you then secondly the basic conditions of employment as a threshold that means that if you earn more than the threshold then this also don't apply to you so the last time i've checked the threshold was approximately 16 000 rand so if you're above the threshold whatever i'm saying in terms of the basic conditions the leave don't apply to you so annual leave is a cycle over a period of 12 months that means that if you have not taken leave or you start with a company within that period of 12 months you're entitled to this leaf all right but remember guys if you started and you were on probation or a casual or whatever you were before you actually signed your contract of employment you are employee that means that your starting date is the starting date when you actually started at the company not when you signed your contract of employment so you leave start right there the first day you walked in and you started to work not when your probation ended or any of those so that is the start of your annual leave so this gets calculated over a period of 12 months or when your last leave ended and your calculation starts again that is the first thing that you need to know secondly and important is how many days do you get and you leave so any relief is 21 consecutive days not 21 days 21 consecutive days and i'm talking out of the law so this law is the basic condition of employment act once again guys so so that is important for you know that and during this 21 days 21 consecutive days it must be on full payee so you must not check in 21 days how many of that days is supposed to be work days that is the days that you're supposed to get paid for all right so if you work a five day week that means for 15 of those 21 consecutive days i must get paid so if it's a six day week that means obviously i must get paid for 18. so if we're talking consecutive days this includes sundays public holidays saturdays and all of those it include all of us but we're going to get to public holidays a bit later and work that into this discussion so how do we calculate the leave so leave gets calculated on a monthly basis daily basis and hourly basis so firstly it gets calculated at 1.25 days per month that means if you work the full month if you were there were five days a week and you worked every single five days monday to friday it was saturdays inclusive then that means that it means that you have to work the full day 21 or sorry 1.25 days that is if you work a five day week but if you work a six day week that means from monday to saturday or sunday or whatever six days it is then your calculation is at 1.5 days all right so if you worked less than all of those then we do a calculation on an hourly basis that means for every 17 hours that you work you're entitled to one hour leave one hour full paid leave sorry for that guys so let's say public holidays for during your annual if you now take your leave and then this and public holiday that you were supposed to work or forward in that working day of yours then that get calculated and get added to your days all right so you must be home like i said 21 consecutive days but if you work a five day week that means 15 pay days but if there is a public holiday it will now increase to 16. the same with if you work on saturdays or six day week that means you're entitled to 18 days and the public a holiday gets added which means that you are now have more days another one day meaning you've got 19 days so if you calculate your leave calculate the work days if you do start the calculation but remember it's 21 consecutive days other most important thing is that you cannot take any other leaf within your leave now this is important guys this is what people don't tell you out there if you for instance fall sick during your sick leave or during your leave and you booked off for one or two days if you go back to work you must take this doctor's certificate to your workplace that means that gets deducted from your actual leave so if you then took your 15 days and you were three days on sick leave that means you actually took 12 days leave the others was sick leave so this is what people don't know but very important take consideration of that you you have to know it and employers don't tell you that and they will not give it to you but this is your right if you don't get it this is a route to take you can contact me below send a message and i will reply and see how i can assist you guys all right four sleeve all right so let's say that your cycle has now ended and you went six months into your new year like i said in a 12 month period your 12 month is over and you have not taken leave but you're now running into your six months so when you reach your six months then you can force your employer to give you the sleeve got no right to decline that type of leaf so guys that's also very important that is the only condition under which you can force your employer to give you your leave if it's before that then the employees still have a discretion to decide or to decline your leave so guys take a note of that okay then you can also not when you give notice to a company or your employee dismiss you you cannot take your leave as part of that right that means if you have you have been dismissed and you say i give you one month notice or you give him one month notice you cannot take leave in that period you cannot change your leave let's say you've been booked off sick and you don't have sick days it cannot be changed for leave days guys so the one leaf cannot be taken in the place of the other leaf your annual leave stays your annual leave and sick leave stay sick leave all right so let's just go to section 10 of the basic conditional employment right that makes provision that employer must agree when annual leave can be taken if there is no agreement in any relief mistaken must suit the employer right so that like i said previously your employer must agree to take to give you your leave if it's within that period that i've just explained previously right sec the other thing is remember also that you cannot exchange your leave for cash previously i know people did that they take cash instead of they leave but the lord don't allow that anymore you must take you and your leave as per scrap by the law other thing about leave that you need to know is let's say the employers shut down normally employees shut down during december months if there's a shutdown period you're also not you must take that leaf that is leave so you must take your leave in that period that employs shadow if you take you leave any other period in the shutdown period that means that at the end you will not be entitled to paid leave during the shutdown period of the employer so that is leave guys if there's any questions about leave any comments that you have make it below on this on youtube if you like this channel or the information sheet and you want more information as more videos becomes available please subscribe there's no money involved guys subscribe to it and you will see more videos and relevant videos i will next time talk about public holidays and sundays and the payment day of and once again there's going to be some new stuff that you will learn that you have not known so go down at the bottom subscribe and like this and you will have the benefit of this going forward just lastly all these laws that i've just explained to you apply to the south african workers so if you're in south africa all of this applies to you guys thank you very much